[R] problems understanding sapply

[John Sorkin]

R 2.4.1
windows XP
 
I am trying to fill in a matrix with binomial probabilities without using a for loop. I am trying to obtain a value for pbinom using the value stored in column one of the matrix delete. Clearly I am doing something wrong. Please help me understand my error.
 
> delete<-matrix(nrow=31,ncol=2)
> delete[1:31,1]<-1:31
> delete[,2]<-sapply(delete[,2], pbinom,delete[,1],30,0)
Error in delete[, 2] <- sapply(delete[, 2], pbinom, delete[, 1], 30, 0) : 
        number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length
 
Thanks,
John
 
 
John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
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University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude D. Pepper OAIC,
University of Maryland Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, and
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